Books Quote by Nick Hornby

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and…

— Dave Eggers

The only books I give up on are texts where the writer's attention is concentrated so heavily on narrative questions that his or her…

— Anthony Doerr

“We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but create visual narratives in…

— John Green

“Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader’s limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by…

— Storm Jameson

I really don't think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That's the writer's job!

— Hilton Als

I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in…

— Michel Faber

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most…

— Sara Sheridan

“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words…

— Nicholas Carr

“At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many people who…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“I was there to get a Ph.D. in English literature. That's not true. I was there to read a lot of books and to…

— Marisa de los Santos

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide